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The Natural layer combines two authoritative sources for comprehensive disaster monitoring, providing real-time alerts with severity assessments and satellite-derived event detection.

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IMD marine bulletins

India Meteorological Department (IMD) sea-area and coastal bulletins come from the public pages on mausam.imd.gov.in (weather:imd-cyclone-marine:v1). The seeder reads 2 sea-area bulletins (Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea) and 7 coastal bulletins. Each record keeps the storm-warning line, the port signal, the storm-surge or tidal warning, and the wind, weather, visibility, and sea condition for one area. Each record also keeps the issuing office, the time of issue, and the validity window. The seeder does not merge these records into weather:alerts:v1. IMD cyclone track, forecast wind radii, and cone of uncertainty are available only from the IMD API, so these products are disabled with the reason API_ONLY_COVERED_BY_GDACS. GDACS tropical cyclones, described below, cover the North Indian Ocean. Port warnings and fishermen warnings are PDF-only. Port signals arrive in the coastal bulletins instead. A disabled product or an empty list is not an all-clear. The RTI non-commercial terms recorded for IMD (commercialUse: rti-non-commercial-only) apply to these public pages as well as to the API.

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Configure the IMD Railway seeder

The seed-imd-cyclone-marine service needs no IMD account, API key, or proxy. It needs only UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL and UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN. It runs on the registry schedule, */15 * * * *. Each run requests the 9 bulletin pages in sequence, 1 second apart, with a browser User-Agent. Each page is parsed on its own:
  • A page that parses and is inside its validity window publishes its area records.
  • A page whose validity window has ended publishes no records. The run still counts as healthy, because IMD replied and the page parsed.
  • A page that fails to load or parse keeps its last-good records until their validity window ends. The snapshot reports coverageState: degraded and names the page under products.<id>.pages.
To verify a deployment, call the WorldMonitor MCP tool get_imd_cyclone_marine. Accept the deployment only when the response has stale: false, its IMD snapshot has coverageState: ok, and generatedAt is later than the deployment time. Also confirm that https://api.worldmonitor.app/api/health?compact=1 does not list imdCycloneMarine in problems.

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GDACS (Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System)

UN-backed disaster alert system providing official severity assessments: Alert Levels:

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NASA EONET (Earth Observatory Natural Event Tracker)

Near-real-time natural event detection from satellite observation:

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Multi-Source Deduplication

When both GDACS and EONET report the same event:
  1. Events within 100km and 48 hours are considered duplicates
  2. GDACS severity takes precedence (human-verified)
  3. EONET geometry provides more precise coordinates
  4. Combined entry shows both source attributions

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Filtering Logic

To prevent map clutter, natural events are filtered:
  • Wildfires: Only events < 48 hours old (older fires are either contained or well-known)
  • Earthquakes: M4.5+ globally, lower threshold for populated areas
  • Storms: Only named storms or those with warnings